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Belarusian and Russian are the two official languages, but Russian is more widely spoken. It will be difficult to get by without some Russian. The two languages are closely related, together with Ukrainian, so even the Belarusian monolinguals understand some Russian and Ukrainian. Polish is spoken in the western parts, especially around Grodno.

Pronunciation guide

Belarusian follows its own style of cyrillic form of writing standing out from the rest of the Slavic alphabets. Below you'll find an example of Belarusian cyrillic alphabet. The palate sounds is done with your tongue touching the roof of the mouth.